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CASE OF RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
liis running, so we are kept from making rapid advances by 
those of whom I am speaking. 
It is high time that something should be done to alter the 
existing state of things, and I take the liberty of suggesting 
the following simple method, viz., that, in addition to a more 
rigid enforcement of the existing preliminary examination, 
every student who wishes to enter the College shall produce 
a certificate of respectability and good character from a clergy- 
man or other minister of religion. By this means, I venture 
to say that in a few years men of 6C higher worth ” would be 
induced to enter the profession, and would not think it beneath 
them to be known as veterinary surgeons. Then, but not till 
then, can we expect to command, as a body, the esteem and 
confidence of an intelligent and close discerning public. I do 
not wish to intrude any further, at present, on your valuable 
space by adding to these remarks ; but I do hope that some one 
with greater influence will take up this subject, that it may be 
discussed in a manner corresponding to its importance. 
[We refrain from expressing any opinion at present on the 
views of Mr. Fraser with regard to the social position of the 
veterinary surgeon, or on the m£ans which he suggests for its 
elevation. The proposed plan, however, we may say, does 
not possess any novelty, and we think we are right in affirm- 
ing that something very like it was in operation in the earliest 
days of the Royal Veterinary College. Persons wishing to 
become pupils had in those days to bring with them proofs 
of respectability and of possessing the elements of a good 
education. — Eds.] 
CASE OF RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
By B. R. Kirk, M.R.C.V.S., Huddersfield. 
This district of Yorkshire has acquired a rather unenviable 
notoriety in being a centre of infection for the above-named 
dreadful disease, and it has been my lot to have had several 
indisputable cases brought under my notice, but up to the 
present time they have always been canine patients. As I 
believe rabies is a rare disease / in the horse, I thought that a 
plain description of the case might not be uninteresting to 
some of your readers. On Saturday night last, the 12th 
ult., I was requested to visit a horse, the property of W. H. 
Aston, Esq., of this town. On my arrival I was informed 
